An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

The story people tell is that Alexander the Great stood over him and offered him any favor he liked. The answer was, “Cease to shade me from the sun.” Another legend has the two men dying on the same day.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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